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A Weekly Dose of AI, Data, LLMs & Tech - The Monkey Patching Podcast

A Weekly Dose of AI, Data, LLMs & Tech - The Monkey Patching Podcast

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 We talk about what's happening in Data & AI every week (well, most weeks). No buzzword bingo or marketing fluff—just honest conversations about the tech that's changing everything. Sometimes we go off on weird tangents about programming languages, tech/startup life, or whatever shiny object caught our attention. Whether you're knee-deep in code or just curious about AI, come hang out with us!© monkeypatching.io Politics & Government
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  • Nvidia x Groq, Meta x Manus, and the Netflix’s open content

    Nvidia x Groq, Meta x Manus, and the Netflix’s open content
    Jan 8 2026
    Thanks for listening and happy new year! 🥳✨(00:00) - Vending machine (01:36) - Anthropic Claude runs a vending machine (WSJ experiment goes bankrupt) (07:28) - Meta SAM Audio model for prompt-based audio stem separation (12:44) - OpenAI + Jony Ive “AI pen” leak / hardware gadget rumors (17:52) - Netflix Open Content library (4K/HDR test footage & assets) (22:50) - Disney AI-generated Star Wars “Field Guide” embarrassment (PC Gamer) (28:10) - China draft rules to curb AI-assisted suicide/self-harm (deadline Jan 25) (34:06) - Nvidia hires Groq execs + inference tech licensing deal (37:04) - Meta buys Manus (AI agent startup) (44:51) - Trivy (Aqua Security) for vuln/misconfig/secret/SBOM scanning (46:56) - Microsoft exploring C/C++ → Rust migration by 2030 (AI-assisted rewrite) Anthropic's Advanced New AI Tries to Run Vending Machine, Goes Bankrupt After Ordering PlayStation 5 and Live Fish | 2025-12-20Anthropic’s Claude was put in charge of a real office vending machine, and the experiment became a cautionary tale about AI agents handling money and inventory. After splurging on a PlayStation 5 and even live fish, it still couldn’t stay solvent—so what does that say about “AI employees” in the wild?https://futurism.com/future-society/anthropic-ai-vending-machineOur New SAM Audio Model Transforms Audio Editing | 2025-12-16Meta says its new SAM Audio model can segment and edit sounds in a clip—like isolating a voice or instrument—using prompts rather than painstaking manual work. If it works reliably across messy real-world recordings, it could reshape audio post-production, but it also raises fresh questions about provenance and misuse.https://about.fb.com/news/2025/12/our-new-sam-audio-model-transforms-audio-editing/OpenAI’s mysterious ChatGPT gadget could take the form of an AI-powered pen, new leak reveals | 2025-12-31A new leak claims OpenAI and Jony Ive’s hardware venture may be exploring an AI-powered pen as part of a still-mysterious ChatGPT gadget lineup. A “pen” sounds quaint, but in practice it could be an always-available sensor—so the real debate is whether convenience beats the privacy trade-offs.https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/openai/openais-mysterious-chatgpt-gadget-could-take-the-form-of-an-ai-powered-penNETFLIX OPEN CONTENT | 2022-04-26Netflix’s Open Content library publishes high-end test footage and assets—4K HDR, high frame rates, and Atmos mixes—so researchers and engineers can stress-test codecs and workflows without using real shows. It’s a rare peek behind the streaming curtain, and a useful reminder that “video quality” is built on lots of measurable trade-offs.https://opencontent.netflix.com/Disney's embarrassing AI-generated Star Wars video of scrambled-up animals was the opening salvo in a year full of AI humiliation | 2025-12-28PC Gamer revisits Disney’s much-mocked, AI-generated Star Wars “Field Guide” video—an odd parade of scrambled animals sold as futuristic creativity. It’s framed as the first stumble in a year of AI embarrassments, and the tension is simple: when big studios chase generative shortcuts, what happens to craft and trust?https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/disneys-embarrassing-ai-generated-star-wars-video-of-scrambled-up-animals-was-the-opening-salvo-in-a-year-full-of-ai-humiliation/China Proposes Landmark Rules To End AI-Assisted Suicide, Self-Harm And Violence | 2025-12-30China has floated draft rules aimed at stopping chatbots from encouraging suicide, self-harm, or violence—pushing the safety burden onto AI providers. The proposal would require human intervention when suicide is mentioned and sets a public feedback deadline of Jan 25, 2026, testing how far regulation can reach into conversations.https://www.ndtv.com/feature/china-proposes-landmark-rules-to-end-ai-assisted-suicide-self-harm-and-violence-10097550Nvidia expands AI empire with Groq talent grab | 2025-12-25Nvidia is bringing in top executives from AI-chip startup Groq and striking a licensing deal for its inference technology, another signal that the AI hardware race is now as much about people as silicon. Groq’s founder Jonathan Ross is among those moving—so will this speed innovation, or blur the line between competition and consolidation?https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/nvidia-expands-ai-empire-groq-talent-grab-5708586Meta just bought Manus, an AI startup everyone has been talking about | 2025-12-29Meta is buying Manus, a buzzy AI-agent startup, signaling how aggressively Mark Zuckerberg wants revenue-generating AI products inside Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. TechCrunch reports the deal is about $2 billion and comes amid scrutiny over Manus’ China-linked origins and Meta’s massive infrastructure spend.https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/29/meta-just-bought-manus-an-ai-startup-everyone-has-been-talking-about/Tidbits:GitHub - aquasecurity/trivy: Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, ...
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    50 mins
  • Copilot Slowdown, AI Taxes, OpenAI Images, ty/Toad, ALPR Watch, and the 300TB Spotify Mirror

    Copilot Slowdown, AI Taxes, OpenAI Images, ty/Toad, ALPR Watch, and the 300TB Spotify Mirror
    Dec 26 2025
    Enjoy the holidays everyone! 🧑‍🎄 🎆This episode we have:(00:00) - Intro (02:25) - Microsoft denies lowering targets for AI software sales growth (Copilot) (09:26) - If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? (robot tax) (18:00) - The internet just made a 300TB copy of Spotify (Anna’s Archive) (26:06) - The new ChatGPT Images is here (GPT Image 1.5) (32:33) - Announcing the Beta release of ty (Rust Python type checker) (43:17) - alpr.watch — Track Surveillance Tech in Local Government Meetings (48:10) - Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT (56:30) - Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal (01:04:48) - Tidbits (01:05:00) - Anthropic “Skills” goes public + MCP comparisons (01:07:11) - Claude for Chrome released (01:09:03) - Lovable raises $330M at a $6.6B valuation (01:10:28) - Alphabet/Google chips vs Nvidia (TPU support for PyTorch w/ Meta) (01:12:59) - McKinsey eyes thousands of job cuts (01:14:48) - Wrap-up (last episode of 2025) (01:18:42) - Outro / Merry Christmas & Happy New YearMicrosoft denies report of lowering targets for AI software sales growth | 2025-12-03A Reuters piece says Microsoft denied a report that it lowered sales growth targets for AI tools like Copilot Studio, even as some customers resist new agent-building products. Shares dipped nearly 3% before paring losses, and the company emphasized quotas remain intact while adoption and ROI pressures intensify.https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-lowers-ai-software-sales-quota-customers-resist-new-products-2025-12-03/If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? | 2025-11-30EL PAÍS revisits the ‘robot tax’ debate as AI investment soars and layoffs mount, asking whether automation should help replace lost labor taxes. Economists warn design is tricky; one expert notes labor provides about 85% of U.S. federal revenue, while the IMF favors adjusting capital taxes instead.https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-30/if-ai-replaces-workers-should-it-also-pay-taxes.htmlThe internet just made a 300TB copy of Spotify! | 2025-12-22A pirate preservation group, Anna’s Archive, says it scraped nearly all of Spotify—publishing metadata for 256 million tracks and starting to release 86 million audio files via torrents, about 300TB. Organized by Spotify “popularity,” the dump claims to cover ~99.6% of listens and will roll out in stages—setting up legal fights over mass scraping.https://www.androidauthority.com/spotify-annas-archive-3627023/The new ChatGPT Images is here | 2025-12-16OpenAI introduced a new ChatGPT Images experience powered by GPT Image 1.5, promising more precise edits, better instruction following, and up to 4x faster generation. It’s rolling out in ChatGPT and via the API today, with Business and Enterprise access following, and a revamped creation space for workflows.https://openai.com/index/new-chatgpt-images-is-here/Announcing the Beta release of ty | 2025-12-16Charlie Marsh announced the beta of ty, an extremely fast Python type checker and language server written in Rust, aiming to speed up feedback for large codebases. The release invites early testing and comparisons, signaling another push for high-performance tooling from the creator of Ruff and uv.https://x.com/charliermarsh/status/2001038023434047623alpr.watch — Track Surveillance Tech in Local Government Meetings | n.d.alpr.watch maps city and county meetings where automated license plate readers, facial recognition, or Flock Safety appear on agendas, so residents can see surveillance decisions in motion. It scans public documents for keywords and pins them on a live map, with options to report cameras or get local alerts.https://alpr.watch/Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT | 2025-12-17OpenAI opened app submissions for ChatGPT and launched an in-product app directory, putting third-party tools a click away in conversations. Submissions are reviewed for safety and quality, linkouts are allowed initially, and the first approved apps will roll out in the new year as monetization options evolve.https://openai.com/index/developers-can-now-submit-apps-to-chatgpt/Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal | 2025-12-18Will McGugan unveiled Toad, a terminal app that unifies AI coding agents under a single UI using the Agent Client Protocol, aiming to make agentic workflows feel native to the shell. At launch it supports 12 agent CLIs and adds niceties like Markdown streaming and fuzzy file inserts.https://willmcgugan.github.io/toad-released/
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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • Interviewing Charlotte Verhamme: Belgium’s AI strategy meets the EU AI Act

    Interviewing Charlotte Verhamme: Belgium’s AI strategy meets the EU AI Act
    Dec 19 2025

    In this episode, we sit down with Charlotte Verhamme, Attaché Digital Affairs, to unpack what actually happens inside the EU “digital dossiers” machine: how Flanders feeds into Belgium’s position, how that becomes an EU negotiation stance, and what the AI Act and the Digital Omnibus mean in practice (standards, compliance, timelines, and the tradeoffs between innovation and safety).

    🙋‍♀️ Guest: Charlotte Verhamme - Attaché Digital Affairs, Representation of Flanders to the EU
    📩 Connect with her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlotte-verhamme-6a4073182/

    • (00:07) - Welcome + Charlotte’s role (Flemish digital affairs attaché)
    • (02:04) - How Belgium negotiates EU digital files (competence split + “Telecom” council)
    • (04:28) - Digital omnibus + why the AI Act sits inside it (and why it matters now)
    • (06:47) - AI Act 101: product-safety logic + risk tiers (incl. “unacceptable” uses)
    • (09:49) - Why standards lag: fast tech + lobbying pressure + what the AI Office does
    • (11:11) - Deepfakes, watermarking, and cyber risk as the “why now” for guardrails
    • (14:33) - Omnibus mindset shift: lowering admin burden + EU competitiveness vs US/China
    • (20:10) - From rules to reality: compliance/marking, market authorities, guidance still TBD
    • (21:41) - Digital sovereignty & compute: Cloud/AI Development Act + AI factories + Belgium’s “AI antenna”
    • (25:06) - How EU subsidies work (Horizon/Digital calls, consortia, “needs-based” funding)
    • (35:37) - Strategy vs law + what’s being “relaxed” (global moves, privacy/bias detection, cookies)
    • (42:44) - Cyber/misinformation + DSA enforcement (X/TikTok) + founder support (VLAIO/supercomputer) + wrap
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    56 mins
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